Margaret
TV Movie
Drama
A detailed and compelling portrait of one of the most formidable characters in British politics as she faces her final days in power. The year is 1990 and Margaret Thatcher's support within the government is wavering - her hold on the premiership hangs in the balance. Then, long-serving politician Sir Geoffrey Howe resigns over Thatcher's attitude to Europe. His resignation speech sparks a chain of events that leads to the overthrow of Britain's first woman prime minister. This modern dramatic tragedy illustrates the strengths and fatal flaws of this iconic woman more clearly than ever before and reveals how the very aspects of her character that helped her secure power are the ones that ensured her downfall. Drama starring Lindsay Duncan.
2009-03-26
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Cast
Director
James Kent
Lindsay Duncan as Margaret Thatcher
Ian McDiarmid as Denis Thatcher
Roger Allam as John Wakeham
Kevin McNally as Kenneth Clarke
Roger Ashton-Griffiths as John Sergeant
Michael Maloney as John Major
Roy Marsden as Norman Tebbit
Guy Henry as Tristan Garel-Jones
Nigel Le Vaillant as Ted Heath
Robert Hardy as Willie Whitelaw
James Fox as Charles Powell
Philip Jackson as Bernard Ingham
John Sessions as Geoffrey Howe
Oliver Cotton as Michael Heseltine
Julian Firth as Norman Lamont
Rosemary Leach as The Queen
Elizabeth Bennett as Sue Mastriforte
Olivia Poulet as Carol Thatcher
Michael Cochrane as Alan Clark
Dermot Crowley as Airey Neave
Nicholas Le Prevost as Douglas Hurd
Rupert Vansittart as Peter Morrison
Tim McMullan as William Waldegrave
Paul Jesson as Kenneth Baker
Nicholas Day as Cranley Onslow
Nicholas Jones as Tim Renton
Christian McKay as John Whittingdale
Charlotte Asprey as Caroline Stephens
Diana Kent as Margaret King
Oliver Le Sueur as Mark Thatcher
Douglas McFerran as MP
Mark Perry as John MacGregor
Nicholas Rowe as Malcolm Rifkind
Tim Wallers as MP